April 7 open 19h30 start 20h00 Tokyo JAPAN ftarri

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Friday April 7 2017 open 19h30 start 20h00

After two successful tours in Europe (Germany, Italy, Switzerland, UK) Realistic Monk (Carl Stone + Miki Yui) makes it Japan debut。

Artists:

  • Realistic Monk (Carl Stone + Miki Yui)
  • Makoto Oshiro solo

2000 yen

ftarri
Okuno Bldg B1F 1-4-11 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo
Tokyo JAPAN
03-6240-0884
Map (Japanese) at here
info@ftarri.com
http://www.ftarri.com/suidobashi/index-e.html

April 14 open 19h00 start 19h30 Tokyo Aoyama Japan cococara

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Friday April 14 2017 open 19h00 start 19h30
Danish Multisounds artist Jakob Draminsky returns to Japan after a long absence, performing on melodion and floor electronics. Also performing a set in the evening will be Carl on laptop .The opening act will be VELTZ, with an analog TV performance.

Artists:

2000円 +1drink 400円

cococara
Minami Aoyama 2-27-20, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Tokyo Aoyama Japan
03-6434-7547
Map (Japanese) at here
info@cococara-minamiaoyama.com
http://www.cococara-minamiaoyama.com

April 23 & 24 San Francisco CA Gray Area Art & Technology Don Buchla Memorial Concerts

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Sunday April 23 & 24 2017
Carl’s 1970’s composition UNTHAITLED will be featured as part of the two day celebration of the life and memorial for Don Buchla. For full information on this two day festival packed with events taking place all through the day and night, see https://www.facebook.com/events/1870722763212756/

Artists:

  • Morton Subotnick
  • David Rosenboom
  • Richard Devine
  • Laetitia Sonami
  • Marielle V. Jakobsons
  • Bob Ostertag
  • Thomas Dimuzio
  • Maggi Payne
  • Laurie Spiegel
  • George Lewis
  • Alessandro Cortini
  • Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • Suzanne Ciani
  • Curtis Roads
  • Antimatter (Xopher Davidson)
  • Jessica Rylan
  • Ami Radunskaya
  • Layne (Rachel Aiello)
  • bran(…)pos
  • Sarah Davachi
  • Carl Stone
  • Zeena Parkins

Single day and weekend passes available

Gray Area Art & Technology
2665 Mission Street San Francisco 94110
San Francisco CA
415-843-1423
https://www.facebook.com/events/1870722763212756/
https://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?936717

April 27 open 19h30 start 20h00 Copenhagen Denmark KoncertKirken

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Thursday April 27 2017 open 19h30 start 20h00
Carl’s tape composition SUKOTHAI (1977) will be featured as part of a listening room adjunct to a concert series in Copenhagen called Arbitrary. This series is in cooperation with the G((o))ng Tomorrow festival (formerly Wundergrund). It should be great to listen to this piece in such marvelous acoustics!

Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/179674455881925

Artists:

  • Nikolaienko (UKR)
  • Mads Emil Nielsen (DK)
  • Andrew Pekler (DE)
  • Paul Koonce (US)
  • Carl Stone (US/JP)

80 DKK / student 50 DKK

KoncertKirken
Blågårds Plads 6A
2200 Copenhagen (N)
Denmark
Copenhagen Denmark
+45 51212047
Map (English) at here
info@arbitraryproject.com
http://arbitraryproject.com
http://arbitraryproject.com/Live-Listening-Room-1

May 4 start 19h30 Yokohama JP Yokohama Airegin “Anything Goes” Night Music Festival 2017

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Thursday May 4 2017 start 19h30
Carl joins with collaborating partner vocalist Akaihirume for a special one-night event as part of the Yokohama International “Anything Goes” Night Music Festival 2017. Also joining for the event will be the gorgeously toned cellist Mori-Shige. It promises to be a fine evening!
Festival Support:
Embassy of Denmark,
Embassy of Switzerland
and others

Artists:

Adv ¥2500 Door ¥3000 (1Drink minimum)

Yokohama Airegin
Sumiyoshi-cho, 5-60 Naka-ku, Yokohama
Yokohama JP
045 641 9191
Map (English) at here
Map (Japanese) at here
http://www.airegin.yokohama

May 7 open 18h30 start 19h00 Tokyo Nishi-Azabu Japan Super Deluxe

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Carl Stone + Akai Hirume

Sunday May 7 2017 open 18h30 start 19h00
Carl Stone and Akaihirume in their Super Deluxe debut at the Image Forum Festival 2017 After Party taking place there. Also on the bill, experimental film maker Rainer Kohlberger. In cooperation with the Cultural Forum of Austrian Embassy Tokyo.

Artists:

Adv. 2000 yen / Door 2500 yen (plus drink)
Image Forum Festival Attendees 2000 yen (drink included)

Super Deluxe
3-1-25-B1F Nishi-Azabu Minato-ku
Tokyo Nishi-Azabu Japan
03-5412-0515
Map (English) at here
Map (Japanese) at here
https://www.super-deluxe.com/room/4311/

May 12 19h00 Kyoto JP UrBANGUILD Living Arts vol.42

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Friday May 12 2017 19h00
Carl sits in with US electronic musicians Tania Chen and Wobbly, as part of UrBANGUILD’s Living Arts vol.42. Sampling mayhem shall certainly ensue! TANIA CHEN is a performance, sound artist, and free improviser. She performs internationally on piano, keyboards, digital, vintage electronics, found objects and video. WOBBLY / Jon Leidecker has been producing music under the name Wobbly since 1990, improvising with recordings to produce music which inherently resists the act of being captured.

Artists:

  • Tania Chen & Wobbly + Carl Stone
  • AKITO SENGOKU [TIME PAINTING, Visual]
  • ryotaro + Andy Couzens
  • Yukari Sekiya & Eleuka

adv.1800 yen + 1drink / door. 2300 yen + 1drink

UrBANGUILD
Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku KIYA-machi Sanjyo Shimane RUNUE Kyoto Bldg. 3F
Kyoto JP
075-212-1125
Map (Japanese) at here
info@urbanguild.net
http://www.urbanguild.net/ur_schedule/?tribe_events=512-fri-living-arts-vol-42
http://www.urbanguild.net/top.html

July 1 20h00 Tokyo Shimo-Kitazawa Japan Lady Jane

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Saturday July 1 2017 20h00
Carl and Pearl, infamous contrabass and laptop duo , resume their semi-regular residency at Shimo-Kitazawa’s Lady Jane (motto: “Booze and Jazz”), with special guest Ned Rothenberg, who performs on alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi. A first time for this ensemble, and you won’t want to miss it!

Artists:

Lady Jane
Daizawa 5-31-14Setagaya-ku Tokyo 1F
Tokyo Shimo-Kitazawa Japan
03-3412-3947
Map (Japanese) at here
bigtory@mba.ocn.ne.jp
http://bigtory.jp/liveTop.html

July 9 15h00 Paris France Musée du quai Branly Les Siestes Electroniques

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Sunday July 9 2017 15h00
As part of the 2017 edition of Festival Les Siestes Electroniques, Carl has been invited to perform a concert in Paris at the Musée du quai Branly, featuring “IRI” a newly composed work derived from the museum’s audio archives (5000 CDs of ethnomusicology coming from all over the world). The concert will take place outdoors in the park area that ajoins the museum. A truly special experience to be had!

Artists:

  • Carl Stone

free

Musée du quai Branly
37 Quai Branly, 75007 Paris
Paris France

Map (English) at here
http://www.les-siestes-electroniques.com/les-siestes-quai-branly-en?lang=en
http://www.les-siestes-electroniques.com/Programmation-Paris

July 16 17h00 Yokohama JP ZART World Listening Day 2017

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Sunday July 16 2017 17h00
Every year in July, people around the globe gather to celebrate World Listening Day. This year the Tokyo Phonographers Union and Global Sound present World Listening Day 2017 in the Noge area of Yokohama on the theme of Listening to the Ground. To date, The Tokyo Phonographers Union has held the event at Shibuya 20202 Gallery, Zenpukuji Park/Youkobo Art Space, Setagaya Monozukuti School, Sakura WORKS Kannai, The Forum Setagaya, Art Baboo in Yokohama Chinatown and the Schneider Residence in Kiyosumi Shirakawa. This years event consists of a soundwalk, where you can experience the soundscape of Noge its environs with members of the Tokyo Phonographers Union, a listening session where we will share and listen to sounds. Participants are encouraged to bring their own field recordings., and finally a performance utilizing ice water and hydrophones by Hideki Umezawa and Yoichi Kamimura followed by a soundscape improvisation by the Tokyo Phonographers Union and a set by Still Life (Hiroki Sasajima, Takashi Tsuda).

Artists:

Performance：¥2000

ZART
2 Chome-67 Hanasakichō
Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 231-0063
Yokohama JP
090 6308 4154
Map (English) at here
ms.muroya@ezweb.ne.jp
https://www.facebook.com/events/301147910313096/

Zurkonic Reviews Our Brooklyn Concert March 2017

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“I’ve never been moved to jump out of my seat at the end of the performance but I’ll be damned if I didn’t even realize I was standing until I had been clapping rapturously along with the rest of the crowd for a couple minutes.

“The show’s last piece would be the one that solidified Stone as a master of the craft. What unfolded onstage was both sonically accessible and temporally exhaustive as the singer (Akaihirume) and the composer entered into what could be described as an esoteric and aural courting dance that entranced the entire audience.

“I’ve never been one to really romanticize the idea of traveling with a band around the country, but if Carl Stone ever gets the mainstream recognition that elder statesmen like Steve Reich and Philip Glass enjoy, then I might find myself on some strange trip to have my preconceptions about music challenged at every chance.”

Read the full review here.

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Latest Release Gets Picked by The Wire as Best Album of the Year 2016 (Archival Category)

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“West Coast composer Carl Stone was one of the first to plug in to the possibilities of digital synthesizers, samplers and effects. Electronic Music included “Shibucho”, an audacious sample flip of The Temptations’ My Girl that connects Steve Reich’s Come Out to Chicago footwork, and two explorations of the possibilities of the Buchla synth. Julian Cowley said “While Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa were flamboyantly promoting sample based hip-hop, and Joh Oswald was openly flaunting the art of plunderphonics, Carl Stone developed his own idiosyncratic take on sonic bricolage.”

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Boomkat Loves Our New Release and Makes Us Laugh Telling Us So

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“lights up our pleasure centres like a quid in a fruit machine, using a palette of eastern-tuned scales, processed vocals and pop samples to conjure a majorly playful array of idiosyncratic, angular and intriguing arrangements that resonate with Robert Ashley’s mercurial cut-ups as much as The Automatics Group’s incisive dance pop detournements and the proto-glitch music of Nicolas Collins. 

It’s all totally new to us and feels like somebody just opened a big skylight onto our listening lives, flooding us with new sensations between the baroque computer music of Sukhothai (1977) and the wormholing drone of Chao Praya (1973), taking in the soothingly ethereal Shing Kee (1986) and strobing structure of Don II Jang (1982), along with the haunting nocturnal transition of Kuk Il Kwan (1981) to lay out whole new worlds before your ears.”

You can read the full review here

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Our Latest Release Score’s Bandcamp’s “Best of Contemporary Classical” November 2016

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“This astounding anthology collects two-and-a-half hours of the early electronic experiments of Carl Stone, an L.A. composer who studied under Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and worked with Buchla synthesizers back in the ‘70s before finding his true passion: a kind of experimental sampling approach that presaged the developments of folks like John “Plunderphonics” Oswald and Paul Lansky. There are a couple of those early analog synth pieces—thick, long tone drones—made as a student at Cal Arts, included, but the real thrills come from the sample-based work. Stone’s work relied on tape machines, building layer after layer of the same passage of music—like the minute or so of Renaissance harpsichord music in “Sukothai” that folds in on itself until there are 1024 simultaneous layers of the music piled up, and rhythms disappear in a buzzing haze of abstract sound. Towards the end of 1982, he began working with the now-primitive Publison stereo digital delay unit to create dizzying hall-of-mirrors refractions built from tiny fragments of Asian pop, American R&B and classical records that he manipulated with a maniacal rigor to generate sound profiles that drifted toward fleeting recognizability—such as the lick of “My Girl” in “Shibucho”—before pushing off into different chopped-up patterns. Today’s technology could tackle these time-consuming time experiments with ease, but Stone’s resourcefulness and originality is unmistakable, and these sounds remain fresh decades later.”

Bandcamp is a global community where millions of fans discover new music, and directly connect with and fairly compensate the artists who make it. Their mission is to provide all artists with a sustainable platform to distribute their music, while making it easy for fans to directly support the artists they love. This review is from the Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: November 2016 listings

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Textura Reviews Our New 3-LP Release

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“The only prosaic thing about Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties is its title. Otherwise, the eight pieces (one a digital-only bonus) on this three-LP collection of pioneering work by American electro-acoustic composer Carl Stone constitute an oft-mesmerizing two-and-a-half hours; in fact, of the seven album tracks, five are so extensively explored they each take up a full album side. What makes the release especially significant for students of electronic music’s history and development is that all are previously unpublished pieces, the sole exception being “Shing Kee,” which surfaced on a 1992 New Albion CD release.”

Full review here

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Pitchfork Weighs In With One of the First Reviews of Our 3-LP Set

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“Stunning indeed, full of purring drones that at first appear to hardly be moving, only to have them slowly slide and reveal infinite amounts of overtones. It’s evocative of some of my favorite minimal music from this era.

“By-turns lovely, prickly, meditative, and maddening, these eight extended compositions (some two and a half hours of music) showcase drastically different sides of Stone’s work, which previously was relegated to small batch cassette releases in the ’80s and early ’90s. An early adopter of the computer, which he used to create his pieces, Stone’s also worked with turntables and manically manipulated samples. He has electronically elongated source sounds until they take on entirely new topographies. These techniques anticipated later trends of all sorts, from the dense slivers of samples informing the Bomb Squad’s productions to Plunderphonic’s trash-compacting of pop music to Justin Bieber 800% Slower.

From Andy Beta, published October 1 2016. You can read the complete review here

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New Album Scores a Rave Review on Bradford Bailey’s The Hum Blog

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In September 2016, The Hum blog, long a favorite even before we found out that Bradford Bailey was aware of our existence, published a review of “Carl Stone – Electronic Music From the Seventies and Eighties” that was thoughtful, historical, well-researched, and – best of all – could really only be categorized as a rave. Full review can be found at on-site at The Hum, but here are some tantalizing excerpts:

Stone’s Electronic Music From the Seventies and Eighties is a missing link, not only in the history of avant-garde and electronic music, but within the entire body of arranged sound (popular or otherwise). As Leger’s realization of Cubism was to the visual, these works become a metaphor of the contemporary operation of sound. We are saturated with chaos, barraged with an ever present, but uncountable of number sources – each vying for a place in the world. This is the fruit and consequence of a technological age. This is that sound encountered at a crucial point in history – the tipping point between the optimism of exploration and progress which defined the High-Modern spirit, and the fatigue, saturation, inward reflection, and slowing which marks our own.

Dong Il Jang (1982) – the collection’s third track completely knocked me over. It’s incredible – sonically to the coming digital era, what Steve Reich’s It’s Gonna Rain is to the analog. It was recorded the same year the CD debuted, anticipating sounds we all know too well (and eluding to an aesthetic yet to be pioneered by Yasunao Tone, Nicolas Collins, and others) – skipping and skittering micro-loops. Remarkably, it was created on an early analog sampler. It’s prescience and achievement is mind boggling.

Sukothai is a sound collage with 1024 layers, built from a single source – a recording of the harpsichord. It grows from faithful representation, toward a writhing chaotic sea of sound, until it progressively becomes so complex that it evolves into one of the most beautiful drones imaginable.

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January 21 20h00 Singapore La Salle College of the Arts

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Friday January 20 2017 20h00
Carl performs at the 2017 C.H.O.P.P.A Festival, which runs two days, January 20 and 21st. He’ll do a solo set and also a duo with Natalie Alexandra, who plays the guzheng (Chinese zither) & electronics. The 2017 edition of C.H.O.P.P.A. Experimental Music Festival is the most ambitious festival they have planned yet, featuring incredible musicians from around Southeast Asia, United States of America and Europe. Presenting exploratory music at the cutting edge of practice, this festival covers a wide range of the sonic arts from the far reaches of electronic music and electro-acoustic improvisation.

The festival schedule is as follows:
January 20:
1. Dharma + Sudarshan Chandra Kumar + Brian O’Reilly
2. George Chua + Zeekos Perakos + Aqilah Misuary
3. Aya Sekine + Yong Yandson + Ian Woo
January 21:
1.Siew-Wai Kok +  Jingyin (Jon) He + Dirk Stromberg
2. Mirror Unit
3. Carl Stone solo
4. Carl Stone + Natalie Alexandra

Artists:

  • Natalie Alexandra
  • George Chua
  • Dharma
  • Jingyin (Jon) He
  • Siew-Wai Kok
  • Sudarshan Chandra Kumar
  • Aqilah Misuary 
  • TIm O’Dwyer
  • Brian O’Reilly
  • Zeekos Perakos
  • Aya Sekine
  • Carl Stone
  • Dirk Stromberg
  • Georg Wisell
  • Ian Woo
  • Yong Yandson

Free

La Salle College of the Arts
LASALLE Flexible Performance Space, 1 McNally Street
Singapore

Map (English) at here
http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/c-h-o-p-p-a-2017/

December 27 open 18h30 start 19h00 Tokyo Setagaya Kid Ailack Art Hall

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Tuesday December 27 2016 open 18h30 start 19h00
“ARIGATOU KID!”
On the occasion of the closing of KID AILACK, the long standing Tokyo live house that shuts its doors at the end of the month, four artists gather to celebrate its long and wonderful history of 39 years. We say sayonara with an evening of improvisation. Please join us.

Artists:

  • Sizzle Ohtaka (voice)
  • Akikazu Nakamura (shakuhachi)
  • Morgan Fisher (keyboards, light paintings)
  • Carl Stone (laptop)

advance: ¥3500 + 1 drink; same day: ¥4000 + 1 drink

Kid Ailack Art Hall
〒156-0043 Tokyo, Setagaya, Matsubara 2-43-11
Tokyo Setagaya
03-3322-5564
http://blog.livedoor.jp/kidailack-schedule/
http://kidailack.co.jp